
Are Webhooks ready for “as-a-Service” treatment?
Webhooks have become the glue holding modern SaaS together. Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, Slack — they all rely on them.
But once you’ve built webhook delivery at scale, you realize it’s not “just a POST request”:
Retries & exponential backoff
Dead-letter queues
Signature verification & replay protection
Monitoring & observability
Customer support when events go missing
We just published a deep dive into the idea of Webhook-as-a-Service (WaaS) — what it is, why teams are adopting it, and whether it deserves to be a standard developer primitive like storage, queues, or databases.
Curious to hear from this community:
Have you built webhook infra in-house?
Would you trust a 3rd-party WaaS provider?
Or do you think this is still too niche to become “infra-as-a-service”?
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